US missionary, captive for 20 months, is alive, reports Niger’s president
World Watch Monitor A US missionary kidnapped in Niger in October, 2016 is alive, according to the West African nation’s president. Jeff Woodke, who worked for Jeunesse en Mission Entraide et Developpement (JEMED), a branch of the US-based Youth With a Mission, was abducted by unknown assailants late in the evening of Friday, 14th October, […]
Kidnapped Colombian nun appears in another hostage video
Sr Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti was kidnapped almost a year ago. A new video of the Colombian nun kidnapped in the south of Mali almost a year ago has been released on the internet. Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, was kidnapped on 8th February, 2017, in Karangasso. “We have seen […]
Kidnapped missionaries appear in video posted by jihadist groups in Africa’s Sahel
World Watch Monitor A coalition of jihadist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda released a video showing six foreign hostages, including three missionaries, just hours before France President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Mali, where France agreed to help support anti-terrorist efforts in the Sahel. According to the US-based monitoring group SITE, the undated almost 17 minute footage was […]